People are suckered into others’ conspiracies all the time, without even knowing they’ve been suckered. Just look at our recent political history.
The claims of having retrieved nuts-and-bolts craft began at a time when extraordinary scientific exploration and discovery were being done, with a lot of attendant secrecy and often rather wise and understandable paranoia (and frequently less than benign policies).
I haven’t seen anything that PROVES to me that we’re being visited by little outer space guys and that all of this couldn’t be something else and very different.
Forget the “outer space guys”—that is not what is being discussed here. That is the “squirrel” that keeps folks distracted and confused (and feeling safe).
What is being discussed is non-human intelligence craft.
The craft exist—but claims they are from “outer space” are indeed pure speculation—and imho unfounded speculation.